Entry № 4680 · Celtic origin

Iseult Iseult — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-SOOLT /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Tristan and Iseult - medieval romance"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "tristan and iseult - medieval romance".

Iseult is from the Old French Iseut — adapted from the Welsh Esyllt (of fair aspect). Iseult is the Irish princess at the heart of Tristan and Iseult — one of the love legends of medieval Europe, predating and influencing the Arthurian Lancelot-Guinevere romance.

Of fair aspect (Welsh-Old French).

The name in its native script.

Iseut
Transliteration
Iseult
Pronunciation
/ iːˈsuːlt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iseult stands.

Iseult does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Iseults before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iseult (medieval)
Tristan and Iseult.
c. 1170

Names connected to Iseult.

The number behind Iseult.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iseult reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.